Have we reached the beginning of the end for review papers?
Barry Smyth, Padraig Cunningham
审稿传统上在学术出版方面享有很高的地位,因为它们在总结和综合研究领域方面可以发挥重要作用。 它们也可以比提出原创研究的主要研究论文吸引更多的引用,使它们对作者有吸引力。 近年来,审查文件的出版量急剧增加,既有原始数字,也占总出版物产出的比例。 在本文中,我们展示了在广泛的研究领域的增长。 我们量化了与评论论文相关的引文红利,但也表明它正在下降,并讨论这种下降的原因。 我们进一步表明,自2022年GenAI工具问世以来,有证据表明GenAI在研究论文写作中广泛使用,并且与主要研究论文相比,我们在综述论文中提出了更强的AI信号的证据。 我们建议GenAI加速甚至自动化生产评审论文的潜力将对其地位产生进一步重大影响。
Review papers have traditionally enjoyed a high status in academic publishing because of the important role they can play in summarising and synthesising a field of research. They can also attract significantly more citations than primary research papers presenting original research, making them attractive to authors. There has been a dramatic increase in the publication of review papers in recent years, both in raw numbers and as a proportion of overall publication output. In this paper we demo...